The American Heart Association Low-Salt Cookbook

Chapter One

Preface

Cutting down on salt, or sodium, in your diet is a good idea for a lot of reasons. Maybe your doctor recommended that you reduce your sodium intake to control high blood pressure or congestive heart failure. Maybe you just decided on your own that you’d like to cut down on salt.

You may have put off making the change if your idea of low-sodium cooking is that it would be about as tasty and appealing as cardboard on a plate. Well, you’re in for a wonderful surprise! Regardless of your reason, if you’re trying to cut the salt, this second edition of the American Heart Association Low-Salt Cookbook is your cookbook!

Much has changed on the food front since 1990, when the first edition of this cookbook was published. For instance, convenience foods, low-sodium foods, and other ingredients that simply didn’t exist or weren’t widely available a decade ago are easy to find now, so we’ve incorporated lots of them into the existing recipes. We’ve also reduced the total fat and saturated fat in many of them. In additi ... read full excerpt from The American Heart Association Low-Salt Cookbook ebook